The Muharrem Ince phenomenon
When President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its coalition partner—the Nationalist Action Party (MHP)—called for early elections, they thought victory was assured. After moving Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections forwards a year and a half, to June 24 with only 60 days notice, they expected opposition parties would struggle to unite in a rival coalition and fail to field a presidential candidate capable of posing a threat to President Erdoğan’s 16-year tenure in power.
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